Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1887-02-18
SIDEWALK PRATTLE.
Pray for chinooks.
Weather moderating.


Our weather has come in broken
doses this winter.
Another entertainment Is projected
for the &. r. G. A.
A. J. Shearer returned from visit t.
Pomeroy last Monday.
The singing class membership has
increased to thirty-four.
Miss Holbrook. of Fairview. is quite
sick. DR.. Bibby is in attendance.
Next Wednesday is Ash Wednesday,
the beginning of the Lenten season.
If you have good health you have
nine-tenths of all that nature ever gave
to any man.
Winter is about over. but we will
have some weather yet before the may
flowers bloom.
Martin Wagner left for Portland last
Wednesday on his annual vacation to
be gone month.
Mr. Schmadeka is going to try graft
ing this spring and has engaged Mr..
Weeks TO do the work..
Boys who cannot behave themselves
should be kept at home and not turned
loose to annoy the public.
The weather has been bitterly cold
on Salmon river of late-much colder
than it has been up here on the prairie.
Msnuel's saloon at NJ. Idaho has
been re-furnishsd throughout and now
sports fine billiard table among it's
other attractions.
Mr.. Weeks found some mastodon
homes and some fine specimens of pet
rified wood in one of his prospecting
trips up the creek.
Parties desiring dental work done will
find J. H. McCallie at his Office in the
drug store every day between the hours
Of 8 A. NJ. and 4P. M.
There are considerable cattle down in
the Salmon river canyon that would be
better off if they could be got out to the
haystacks ON the prairie.
A band of horses ran over A. C. Lam
ningham in his barn last Thursday and
churned him up 30 that he will be stiff
from the effects for month to come.
Farmers say there is no market here
for wheat, and yet there will be lots oi
them in week or two giving iron-clad
notes at the rate of dollar bushel for
seed wheat.
The Caldwell Tribune calls our late
lamented legislature gigantic aggre.
CATION of brains and buncombe." Yes,
you are right. The north furnished
the brains, and the south the buncomb.
Fairview and Clearwater items were
evidently intended for publication last
week, but failed to reach us till Satur.
day. To ensure prompt publication
communications should reach the Office
on Tuesdays.
George Starrett, the Walla Walla seed
man is doing land Office business and
his seeds are going to all parts of the
United States. This is the result o.
selling the best article in the market
Write to him for large free eatalog.
"Kip" writes us from Battle creek, in
the neighborhood of the big corral
that the snow is one foot deep, and al
the feed is about all gone, the stock are
beginning to look bad and there will
be lots die if the snow don't soon 60.
People are the same as they always
we're. Let an enterprising citizen star
paper where one never existed before
to build up the country, and scores viii
come up and object to it because j
does not advocate their own peculia
views.
Last Monday was st. Valentine
day, but it was not generally observed
here. and the few that were sent wer
invariably of the vulgar order. Tn
sending of these insulting epistles is
custom more honored in the bfeacl
than in the observance.
Next Tuesday is Washington's birth
day, and for the frst time In 10! thes
many years the occasion will not b
celebrated on this prairie by festivitie
of some kind. Scarcity of music an
the wherewilh to pay for the same al
the reasons assigned for not celebratin
this popular anniversary.
/ A chinook started in to blow last Sal
urdsy, and for few hours 1t worke
like it was in a great hurry to compiei
a fat contract to remove all the SNOW
but it weakened towards midnight an
finally undid its own work by depositir
, three inches OF fresh snow. The wei
, ther since then has been quite mil
and would be thoroughly enjoyable b
| for the haunting fear that the h'
} stock will suffer if the snow don't SOC
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